Public Reel

Road to Happiness · Beat 163 · permalink

Private office

57:53–58:14 Released 1941; registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5757:57Frame at 58:0558:05Frame at 58:1258:12

Play from 57:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 332–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Carter (named at t:57:55): older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • Sam Rankin (named at t:57:56): younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
Also said
“We got some presents for your boy today. He forgot and left him.” 57:58 · “Mr. Carter, I'd like to talk to you about it.” 58:06
Seen
wall sconce, wooden door, suit (dark), tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social obligation, unannounced visit, fatherhood; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men in suits converse in a dimly lit interior with wooden doors and a wall sconce. One man, identified by his own speech as Sam Rankin, delivers presents and requests a private conversation with Mr. Carter.

“Carter? Yes?” 57:55 · “My name is Rankin.” 57:56 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Road to Happiness (1941) at 57:57 (passage 57:53–58:14); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/road_to_happiness/b163.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite